Congress and Baseball

I listened to the Baseball steroid hearings before Congress today and I must say; if what I heard beginning at 4:00 EST on WFAN was any indication of the earlier session, I missed nothing.

These congressional hearings tend to be an excuse for various representatives to sound powerful yat yield no results. Mark McGwire sounded like an idiot and Schilling is nothing but a limelight grabbing moron.

The steroid problem is an issue that must be dealt with by Baseball, not by Congress. Bud Selig is the most spineless Commissioner we've yet seen in a sport that has had many. The so-called "Steroid Policy" will do nothing but make the tiny portion of the public that may be paying attention chuckle.

Jeff Goldstein has an hilarious take as usual:

A note to House Panel members: Jose Canseco is an expert on hitting the belt-high fastball, sticking himself with a needle, and banging Oakland A’s groupies five at a time in a bygone era of Erasure music and mullets. Beyond that, he’s a self-serving egomaniac and a dullard trying desperately—and unsuccessfully—to sound intelligent.

In short, the hearings today did nothing but waste our tax dollars.